Congratulations to the Chicago White Sox and their fans, as the ChiSox go to their first World Series since 1959. After sweeping the Red Sox, they took out the Angels in five games. The most remarkable thing about the White Sox victory was that all of their victories – the last four games of the series – were complete games. One each pitched by Mark Beuhrle, John Garland, Jose Contreras and Freddy Garcia. The only time the White Sox didn’t pitch a complete game was in game 1, when Contreras went a mere 8 and 1/3 innings. The bullpen only pitched 2/3 of an inning the entire series.

The last time four consecutive complete games occurred in the post-season was in 1956, when the Yankees did it in the World Series (one of the games was Don Larsen’s perfect game). 11 major league teams had four or less complete games for the entire 2005 regular season. The Red Sox only had six – three by Wakefield, two by Boomer Wells and one by Matt Clement. It’s just an unbelievable feat by the White Sox in this bullpen dominated age.

So we’ll see if the Astros can finish off the Cardinals and make it two teams who haven’t been to the World Series in a very long time (the Astros have never been in their 43 year existence). It would be a lot of fun seeing these two pitching staffs go at each other in a seven game series.